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September 11, 2023
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of…
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August 8, 2023
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has awarded its 2023 Dirac Medal to four physicists who have made wide-ranging…
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August 2, 2023
Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash.
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June 6, 2023
The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity.
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April 14, 2023
Ten award-winning scholars—including incoming SITP Postdoctoral Scholar Yuk Ting Albert Law—from around the globe have been selected as the 2023…
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April 10, 2023
If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles. A new measurement approaches perfection.
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October 10, 2022
NYTimes Subscription Required -- “It may be too strong to say that gravity and quantum mechanics are exactly the same thing,” Leonard Susskind of…
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July 5, 2022
Douglas Stanford is a professor at Stanford University. As a member of It from Qubit, he was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study.
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May 4, 2022
National Geographic Subscription Required -- “Our understanding of reality is not complete, by far,” says Stanford University physicist Andrei…
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April 29, 2022
Shamit Kachru is the Wells Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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July 30, 2021
“This is just this completely new and exciting space that we’re working in now,” said Vedika Khemani, a condensed matter physicist in S
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July 7, 2021
Peter Graham is interested in discovering the fundamental laws of nature that lie beyond the known standard model. He received an A.B./A.M. from…